Digital libraries and recent medical informatics research - Findings from the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2001

The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the Internatio nal Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of rece nt excellent papers on medical informatics research (http://www.med.uni-hei delberg.de/mi/yearbook/index.htm). The special topic of the just published Yearbook 2001 is "Digital Libraries and Medicine" Digital libraries have ch anged dramatically and will continue to change the way we work with medical knowledge. The selected papers present recent research and new results on digital libraries. As usual, the Yearbook 2001 also contains a variety of p apers on other subjects relevant to medical informatics, such as Electronic Patient Records, Health Information Systems, Health and Clinical Managemen t, Decision Support Systems, Education, as well as Image and Signal Process ing. This paper will briefly introduce the contributions covering digital l ibraries and will show how medical informatics research contributes to this important topic.